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Group/Class:  Easy Elegance Rose

Description:

A lovely bicolor rose which features the pleasing combination of rich pink and apricot orange on the same flowers, fading to a lighter pink for a potent color effect, flowers are individually beautiful; tough and adaptable for a rose, needs full sun

Ornamental Features

Sunrise Sunset Rose is bathed in stunning hot pink flowers with peach overtones and yellow streaks at the ends of the branches from late spring to late summer. The flowers are excellent for cutting. It has bluish-green deciduous foliage. The oval compound leaves turn yellow in fall.

Landscape Attributes

Sunrise Sunset Rose is a multi-stemmed deciduous shrub with a mounded form. Its average texture blends into the landscape, but can be balanced by one or two finer or coarser trees or shrubs for an effective composition.

This shrub will require occasional maintenance and upkeep, and is best pruned in late winter once the threat of extreme cold has passed. Gardeners should be aware of the following characteristic(s) that may warrant special consideration;

• Spiny

Sunrise Sunset Rose is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• Mass Planting
• General Garden Use
• Container Planting

Planting & Growing

Sunrise Sunset Rose will grow to be about 30 inches tall at maturity, with a spread of 4 feet. It tends to fill out right to the ground and therefore doesn't necessarily require facer plants in front. It grows at a fast rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 20 years.

This shrub should only be grown in full sunlight. It does best in average to evenly moist conditions, but will not tolerate standing water. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments. This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid.

Sunrise Sunset Rose makes a fine choice for the outdoor landscape, but it is also well-suited for use in outdoor pots and containers. It can be used either as 'filler' or as a 'thriller' in the 'spiller-thriller-filler' container combination, depending on the height and form of the other plants used in the container planting. It is even sizeable enough that it can be grown alone in a suitable container. Note that when grown in a container, it may not perform exactly as indicated on the tag - this is to be expected. Also note that when growing plants in outdoor containers and baskets, they may require more frequent waterings than they would in the yard or garden.